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ArticleCancers2022

IFN-Gamma Expression in the Tumor Microenvironment and CD8-Positive Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes as Prognostic Markers in Urothelial Cancer Patients Receiving Pembrolizumab.

Toru Sakatani, Yuki Kita, Masakazu Fujimoto, Takeshi Sano, Akihiro Hamada, Kenji Nakamura, Hideaki Takada, Takayuki Goto, Atsuro Sawada, Shusuke Akamatsu and 1 more

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Article in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Towards biomarker-driven therapies for urothelial carcinoma.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2026
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  5. Single-cell transcriptomic sequencing analysis of mechanistic insights into the IFN-γ signaling pathway in different tumor cells.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Toru SakataniDepartment of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Yuki KitaDepartment of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Masakazu FujimotoDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Takeshi SanoDepartment of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Akihiro HamadaDepartment of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Kenji NakamuraDepartment of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0135-7821
Hideaki TakadaDepartment of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Takayuki GotoDepartment of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Atsuro SawadaDepartment of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Shusuke AkamatsuDepartment of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1394-7506
Takashi KobayashiDepartment of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1069-2816
Kyoto University · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although immune checkpoint inhibitors have shown benefit for advanced urothelial carcinoma (aUC) patients, prognostication of treatment efficacy and response duration remains a clinical challenge. We evaluated the expression of immune markers in the tumor microenvironment and assessed their associations with response to and survival after pembrolizumab treatment in 26 aUC patients. High levels of CD8

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CD8immune checkpoint inhibitorinterferon-gammapembrolizumaburothelial carcinoma

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PMID35053427
PMCPMC8774131
OpenAlexW4206224674

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